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yesterday i spoke with lilly ledbetter. the lilly ledbetter pay act was the first act signed by mr. obama. i asked lily who answered the question better. >> absolutely president obama talked about having the ledbetter bill being the first bill that he signed into the law when he first went into the white house and he's exactly right and he talked about that he wanted equal pay because his grandmother who worked all those many hours in the bank was by passed and he wanted to be sure that his daughters swrould a fair chance to be given the equal opportunity to work and be treated like anyone's son. and when he is so committed to the women's causes. like he said, it's not just families. when you're talking about a woman, you're talking about a family issue. >> let me ask you about another comment that governor romney made related to women. listen to this. >> we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become member of our cabinet. i went to a number of women's groups and said can you help us find folks and they brought us whole bin
yesterday i spoke with lilly ledbetter. the lilly ledbetter pay act was the first act signed by mr. obama. i asked lily who answered the question better. >> absolutely president obama talked about having the ledbetter bill being the first bill that he signed into the law when he first went into the white house and he's exactly right and he talked about that he wanted equal pay because his grandmother who worked all those many hours in the bank was by passed and he wanted to be sure that...
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we talk with lily ledbetter about equal pay, her reaction to the debate and the
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joining me on the phone is lilly ledbetter, the lilly ledbetter fair pay act was the first piece of legislation signed by president obama. lilly, good morning. welcome. thanks for joining us. >> good morning, randi, thank you for having me. >> the candidates were asked about women's pay during the debate. i want you to listen to what they said and i want to ask you about it. >> okay. >> what we can do to help young women and women of all ages is to have a strong economy, so strong that employers are looking to find good employees and bringing them into their work force and adapting to a flexible work schedule that gives women the opportunities that they would otherwise not be able to afford. >> when we talk about childcare and the credits that we're providing, that makes a difference in terms of whether they can go out there and earn a living for their family. these are not just women's issues. these are family issues. these are economic issues. and one of the things that makes us grow as an economy is when everybody participates, and women are getting the same fair deal as men are. >> so the a
joining me on the phone is lilly ledbetter, the lilly ledbetter fair pay act was the first piece of legislation signed by president obama. lilly, good morning. welcome. thanks for joining us. >> good morning, randi, thank you for having me. >> the candidates were asked about women's pay during the debate. i want you to listen to what they said and i want to ask you about it. >> okay. >> what we can do to help young women and women of all ages is to have a strong economy,...
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let's talk about the lilly ledbetter fair pay act. it challenges enuke wall pa s e first piece of legislation president obama signed as president and an issue in the debate. coming up at 10:00 a.m. eastern lilly ledbetter will join us to talk more about the candidates and the critical women's vote. >>> how would you feel if your boss told you who to vote for, or more specifically who not to vote for? next, corporate ceos pressure employees not to vote for president obama or lose their jobs. is that legal? >>> hey, christine, what's coming up on your show this morning? >> randi, i'm going to show you six charts, three that mean you should vote for obama and three that mean you should vote for mitt romney, and i'm going to explain exactly what the economic case is for each of those candidates. i'm also going to talk about a new study that says it might be more of an excuse, the quiz d b conventional wisdom that you hear about not having skilled workers, and we'll talk about whether americans can take the high-skilled jobs being offered
let's talk about the lilly ledbetter fair pay act. it challenges enuke wall pa s e first piece of legislation president obama signed as president and an issue in the debate. coming up at 10:00 a.m. eastern lilly ledbetter will join us to talk more about the candidates and the critical women's vote. >>> how would you feel if your boss told you who to vote for, or more specifically who not to vote for? next, corporate ceos pressure employees not to vote for president obama or lose their...
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it's the lily ledbetter fair act pay. he never answered that question. here's how obama reacted to it. >> when governor romney's campaign was asked about the lily ledbetter bill, whether he's for it, he said i'll get back to you. and that's not the kind of advocacy that women need in any economy. >> so the big question here is, would mitt romney sign a bill that guarantees equal pay to women. he never answered that question. >> well, and the point,what you want to do is have equal opportunity so that women can even earn more. women are now more than 50% of the workforce. women are many times the breadwinner of their family, and what you want to do is to make certain that when it comes to access to capital, small business women, when it comes to wage stagnation, that you remove that, and that women can perform on their own and on their strengths and be compensated in an appropriate way. you're not going to address that situation through legislation. what you're going to do is to address that situation through re-education and through opportunity and openi
it's the lily ledbetter fair act pay. he never answered that question. here's how obama reacted to it. >> when governor romney's campaign was asked about the lily ledbetter bill, whether he's for it, he said i'll get back to you. and that's not the kind of advocacy that women need in any economy. >> so the big question here is, would mitt romney sign a bill that guarantees equal pay to women. he never answered that question. >> well, and the point,what you want to do is have...
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the first bill i signed was something called the lily ledbetter bill, it was named after a woman who had been doing the same job as a man for years, found out that she was getting paid less and the supreme court said she couldn't bring suit because she didn't find out about it earlier, she had no way of finding out about it. so we fixed that. that's an example of the kind of advocacy that we need because women are increasingly the breadwinners of the family. this is not just a women's issue, this is a family issue, this is a middle class issue and that's why we have got to fight for it. it also means that we have got to make sure that young people like yourself are able to afford a college education. earlier governor romney talked about that he wants to make pell grants, other education accessible for ying people. the truth of the matter is this's kbaktdly what we have done. we have expanded pell grants for students all across the country. we did it by taking $60 billion that was going to banks that were the middle men for student lones and we said let's just give it to students. as
the first bill i signed was something called the lily ledbetter bill, it was named after a woman who had been doing the same job as a man for years, found out that she was getting paid less and the supreme court said she couldn't bring suit because she didn't find out about it earlier, she had no way of finding out about it. so we fixed that. that's an example of the kind of advocacy that we need because women are increasingly the breadwinners of the family. this is not just a women's issue,...
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from issues of equity, the lilly ledbetter law. i hope people get equal work and equal pay. gays in military. on economic issues, i'm in a city that when the country's in a recession, urban areas are in a depression. programs working with obama from the stimulus, you name it, we're in a period of creating thousands of jobs, over 5,000 jobs created in newark, hope my city hasn't seen before. when it comes to small businesses, i saw this, clearly. in fact, as i stump around the country, i see people in flint, michigan, spa, other programs president obama dwint just cut taxes but gave us capital at a time we desperately needed it. >> 23 million americans unemployment and a $16 trillion debt. these are two huge stakes mitt romney can keep way fort next -- >> but there is a level of hypocrisy. this is what really bothers me. i saw this clearly in the debate. when he talks about a deficit, number one, was begun in a significant way on another person's watch, and then you are arctticulating the same policie that created that deficit. president obama was given a specific plan about
from issues of equity, the lilly ledbetter law. i hope people get equal work and equal pay. gays in military. on economic issues, i'm in a city that when the country's in a recession, urban areas are in a depression. programs working with obama from the stimulus, you name it, we're in a period of creating thousands of jobs, over 5,000 jobs created in newark, hope my city hasn't seen before. when it comes to small businesses, i saw this, clearly. in fact, as i stump around the country, i see...
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wouldn't even answer the question in the debate the other night when asked if he would sign the lilly ledbetter fair pay act. he seems to have forgotten anything he said during the republican primary. like that he would have vetoed the dream act. it's a big deal in florida. we have a lot of young dreamers who are now able to stay in this country. mitt romney would have voe vetoed the dream act and believes in saying to the undocumented immigrants that they should just self-deport. in florida, the issues the election will come down to, the economy, medicare, social security, immigration and the issues important to women. >> with those voters over 50, mitt romney in our poll leading now 56 to 43. which may surprise some who think that medicare push on that ticket was something older people wouldn't like. it doesn't seem to be the case. what about this endorsement? >> overwhelmingly when seniors are asked, like mitt romney's proposal that we should turn medicare into a voucher system or make sure that safety net is there, they overwhelmingly oppose mitt romney's plan and we're continuing make sure
wouldn't even answer the question in the debate the other night when asked if he would sign the lilly ledbetter fair pay act. he seems to have forgotten anything he said during the republican primary. like that he would have vetoed the dream act. it's a big deal in florida. we have a lot of young dreamers who are now able to stay in this country. mitt romney would have voe vetoed the dream act and believes in saying to the undocumented immigrants that they should just self-deport. in florida,...
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he made these remarks about binders full of women in response to a question about the lilly ledbetter act, which is supposed to be an act for make to sue over pay equity issues. he did not address that question. in going into those remarks about how he was trying to staff his office in massachusetts. he didn't mention the fact that his lieutenant governor was a woman. i think it was a sign the president had gotten under his skin and he was forced into a situation where he had an unforced error there. >> the obama campaign believes they can get mileage out of romney's remarks. >> yes, they've been working it on trail all day already. it was unto rt gnat for governor romney. it raises this question, can he relate to working women? it made it sound almost like working women are male order product you can order out of colored binders. you know, there are so many directions you can go. what are the tabs that binder for each of the women? the problem for governor romney, it's two-fold, one, if he's trying to show, and he is, that he can relate and understand the frustrations working women g
he made these remarks about binders full of women in response to a question about the lilly ledbetter act, which is supposed to be an act for make to sue over pay equity issues. he did not address that question. in going into those remarks about how he was trying to staff his office in massachusetts. he didn't mention the fact that his lieutenant governor was a woman. i think it was a sign the president had gotten under his skin and he was forced into a situation where he had an unforced error...
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the first bill i signed was something called the lily ledbetter bill, it was named after a woman who had been doing the same job as a man for years, found out that she was getting paid less and the supreme court said she couldn't bring suit because she didn't find out about it earlier, she had no way of finding out about it. so we fixed that. that's an example of the kind of advocacy that we need because women are increasingly the breadwinners of the family. this is not just a women's issue, this is a family issue, this is a middle class issue and that's why we have got to fight for it. it also means that we have got to make sure that young people like yourself are able to afford a college education. earlier governor romney talked about that he wants to make pell grants, other education accessible for ying people. the truth of the matter is this's kbaktdly what we have done. we have expanded pell grants for students all across the country. we did it by taking $60 billion that was going to banks that were the middle men for student loan program and said let's cut out the middle men. l
the first bill i signed was something called the lily ledbetter bill, it was named after a woman who had been doing the same job as a man for years, found out that she was getting paid less and the supreme court said she couldn't bring suit because she didn't find out about it earlier, she had no way of finding out about it. so we fixed that. that's an example of the kind of advocacy that we need because women are increasingly the breadwinners of the family. this is not just a women's issue,...
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he signed the first bell that he signed into law was the lily ledbetter fair pay act, and to this day mitt romney still cannot say i support equal pay for equal work. he was asked really clearly during that last debate, and he punted yet again. what they also see is that women care about their reproductive health care. not just abortions, but access to contraception, access to mammograms and cervical exams and what they see in president obama is a president who is actually supporting that access and what they see in mitt romney is somebody who really has said, you know what, let your employers, let your bosses decide whether or not you have access to something as fundamental as contraception. 98% of women use contraception at some point in their lives. women care about that. >> hold on to that thought. we're going to come right back. the candidates are heading into the last two weeks of the campaign. more with our panel when we return. would you like to know more about it? yeah, but let me put my wife on speaker. hi! hi. it's led and it has great picture quality. i don't know... it's
he signed the first bell that he signed into law was the lily ledbetter fair pay act, and to this day mitt romney still cannot say i support equal pay for equal work. he was asked really clearly during that last debate, and he punted yet again. what they also see is that women care about their reproductive health care. not just abortions, but access to contraception, access to mammograms and cervical exams and what they see in president obama is a president who is actually supporting that...
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why he voted against the ledbetter equal pay act. have a listen. >> i don't think the government should be telling people what you pay and what we don't pay. it's about freedom. if somebody wants to hire somebody and they agree on a salary that's fine. however it want, two. so the government is sticking its nose into all things. it's gotten us into huge trouble. >> so to be clear and defense attorney joey jackson is back with me from atlanta. professor jackson representative akin was suggesting that the government should not be telling people what to do in their businesses and i think a lot of people really understand and feel that way. but there are something you can and cannot do according to the law. would you enlighten me, please as to whether you can choose somebody who is black make less or choose somebody who is female make more or less? what's the story? >> insert foot in mouth. you know there are laws in the country and what do they say? specifically the law he was talking about and it was a big political issue might remembe
why he voted against the ledbetter equal pay act. have a listen. >> i don't think the government should be telling people what you pay and what we don't pay. it's about freedom. if somebody wants to hire somebody and they agree on a salary that's fine. however it want, two. so the government is sticking its nose into all things. it's gotten us into huge trouble. >> so to be clear and defense attorney joey jackson is back with me from atlanta. professor jackson representative akin...
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response, made these remarks about binders full of women in response to a question about the lilly ledbetter act which is supposed to be an act that makes it easier for women to sue over pay equity issues, he did not address that question, and going into the remarks about how he was trying to staff his office with women in massachusetts, he didn't even mention the fact that his lieutenant governor was a woman. it was a sign that perhaps the president got under his skin and forced into a situation where he had an unforced error there. >> jessica, it seems the obama campaign believes they can get some mileage out of governor romney's remarks. >> yes, working it on the trail all day already. look, anderson, it was very unfortunate for governor romney. it sort of raises this question, can he reality to working women? it made it sound almost like working women are some mail order product you can order out of colored binders and, you know, there are so many directions you can go. what are the tabs in that binder say for each of the women? the problem for governor romney, two fold. one, if he's try
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please. >> katherine, i want to point out when governor romney's campaign was asked about the lilly ledbetter bill, whether he supported it, he said i'll get back to you. and that's not the kind of advocacy that women need in any economy. now, there's some other issues that have a bearing on how women succeed in the workplace. for example, their health care. you know, a major difference in this campaign is that governor romney feels comfortable having politicians in washington decide the health care choices that women are making. i think that's a mistake. in my health care bill, i said insurance companies need to provide contraceptive coverage to everybody who is insured because this is not just a health issue, it's an economic issue for women. it makes a difference. this is money out of that family's pocket. governor romney not only opposed it, he suggested that, in fact, employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage. that's not the kind of advocacy that women need. when governor romney says that we should elimina
please. >> katherine, i want to point out when governor romney's campaign was asked about the lilly ledbetter bill, whether he supported it, he said i'll get back to you. and that's not the kind of advocacy that women need in any economy. now, there's some other issues that have a bearing on how women succeed in the workplace. for example, their health care. you know, a major difference in this campaign is that governor romney feels comfortable having politicians in washington decide the...
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and the president obama, would go write to the lily ledbetter act. and say republicans voted against that. so her explanation is very compelling, but that wasn't the question that he was asked. >> mitt romney could have almost really used that soundbite you just played to help his argument last night. isn't part of mitt romney's problem in trying to win more female supporters, a larger republican problem? >> don't forget, this doesn't happen in a vacuum. we went through all of the republican primaries. rick santorum had his 15 minutes of fame, and contraception became a major issue, of whether insurance companies should pay for contraception. and abortion became a major issue. you had the republican platform, which has no exceptions for rape and incest. you have republicans in congress voting against pay equity. you have the defupding of planned parenthood which mittmy has spoken about. the repeal of obama care, which women are worried about. on this particular question, the president, that's why he's been in the lead with women in the double digits.
and the president obama, would go write to the lily ledbetter act. and say republicans voted against that. so her explanation is very compelling, but that wasn't the question that he was asked. >> mitt romney could have almost really used that soundbite you just played to help his argument last night. isn't part of mitt romney's problem in trying to win more female supporters, a larger republican problem? >> don't forget, this doesn't happen in a vacuum. we went through all of the...
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did not ask the question and b, when asked throughout his campaign whether he would support the lily ledbetter act, the first bill the president signed as president speaks volumes about what he actually thinks is appropriate for equality for wom women. and that is not a whole lot. and i don't think that's going to help him for the next three weeks in the campaign. >> an a, i also wanted to touch on candy crowley. both men actually interrupted her. some viewers thought that the candidates were kind of rude to candy and that might had hurt their standing among women. do you agree? >> you know, i don't. first of all, it kind of comes with the territory. i think candy did a very good job. will she get some criticism? yes. but, again, it comes with the job description. you know, she said before this debate that she was not going to be a fly on the wall. and i think she proved last night that she was not going to be a fly on the wall. she inserted herself in ways that made a difference in the e debate. i think she did some good follow-up. you know, she kept these guys in check and, yeah, it's a hard
did not ask the question and b, when asked throughout his campaign whether he would support the lily ledbetter act, the first bill the president signed as president speaks volumes about what he actually thinks is appropriate for equality for wom women. and that is not a whole lot. and i don't think that's going to help him for the next three weeks in the campaign. >> an a, i also wanted to touch on candy crowley. both men actually interrupted her. some viewers thought that the candidates...
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you know, trying to apply that to various issues like the lily ledbetter pay equity act that affects women an abortion. no surprise when ann romney was out on "the view" earlier this morning and widely considered perhaps the campaign's best surrogate out on the campaign trail, no surprise she was asked about this issue. >> mitt is a pro-life person and governed when he ran as a pro-choice but -- >> explain that to me. >> when the decision came across the desk to use embryos for experimentation -- >> that's stem cell. >> he could not have the -- on his conscious creating human life for experimentation and came out with an editorial saying he was pro-life. we have to all understand this is an issue that's so tender and people on both sides of the issue that have -- that come with very good conscience come with a different opinion and the most important thing for us to do is have respect for each over in this dialogue and talking about two separate lives. >> reporter: so sort of a heartfelt explanation of ann romney as to why mitt romney opposes boergs rights for women and in that inter
you know, trying to apply that to various issues like the lily ledbetter pay equity act that affects women an abortion. no surprise when ann romney was out on "the view" earlier this morning and widely considered perhaps the campaign's best surrogate out on the campaign trail, no surprise she was asked about this issue. >> mitt is a pro-life person and governed when he ran as a pro-choice but -- >> explain that to me. >> when the decision came across the desk to use...
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look, i think jessica is right on the question of appealing to women, you know, the lilly l ledbetter act, which the president could talk about, which makes it easier for women to sue for discrimination if they're not paid equally. he can talk about that. that's something he supported. that's something he got passed in the congress. it was something concrete he could point to. so, you know, i think they were right on his terrain with that and i think what you saw with mitt romney he was sort of searching for something to say in terms of pay equity and instead of pay equity, what he did is he went to the notion of hiring more women in senior positions when he was governor of massachusetts, which is laudable. but the question that women are asking is well, why didn't he sort of know of more women himself as jessica points out. >> we talked about the binders full of women thing that has its own twitter handle. we're not even going to go there. on a very serious note, there, there was another moment that a lot of people are talking about today, the whole exchange concerning the fatal atta
look, i think jessica is right on the question of appealing to women, you know, the lilly l ledbetter act, which the president could talk about, which makes it easier for women to sue for discrimination if they're not paid equally. he can talk about that. that's something he supported. that's something he got passed in the congress. it was something concrete he could point to. so, you know, i think they were right on his terrain with that and i think what you saw with mitt romney he was sort of...
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come from a man who according to his senior adviser said he wasn't for the lilly ledbetter act. >> now, this wasn't the only political attack that the vice president made, martin. he also attacked romney or latched on to this whole idea of romney having romnesia from president obama. and there was an interesting moment, there was a baby crying as the vice president was speaking. and the vice president essentially said that baby is crying because the boy or girl knows that if romney is elected, he'll have a bad future. >> where is the vice president headed next? >> the vice president is going to ohio for three days, right? obviously critical battleground. no republican has ever won the white house without ohio. the vice president will be going there, and on tuesday we know that the vice president and the president will make a rare joint appearance at a rally in ohio on tuesday. >> what are the obama and romney, what are they going to be doing? obviously focusing on their debate. is that where they are right now? >> yeah, no public events for them for today. we know that president obama
come from a man who according to his senior adviser said he wasn't for the lilly ledbetter act. >> now, this wasn't the only political attack that the vice president made, martin. he also attacked romney or latched on to this whole idea of romney having romnesia from president obama. and there was an interesting moment, there was a baby crying as the vice president was speaking. and the vice president essentially said that baby is crying because the boy or girl knows that if romney is...
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. >> the lily ledbetter act is about women in the economy not being able to participate and paul ryan doesn't believe that women should have the same rights in the workplace. >> are you kidding? >> this is one of the traps, i think, for paul ryan tonight. the goal here, i think, for the democrats tonight is to put paul ryan on defense. explain yourself, justify yourself, move the spotlight off of barack obama's debate. >> completely distorts what he believes and who he is -- >> that would never happen. >> but my point was going to be, my point was going to be that the way for ryan to preven that, he has to be on offense. he has to move, look, we tried trickle down government for $16 trillion worth of debt. how do we do it? do we fix anything? he has to keep the spotlight on obama. >> here's what joe biden is going to do? does it stand for the extremism of paul ryan and his budget or this new guy that showed up at the debate last week and he is going to say, who are these people? what do they stand for? actually, paul ryan is driving mitt romney, because, that's right, he is the target
. >> the lily ledbetter act is about women in the economy not being able to participate and paul ryan doesn't believe that women should have the same rights in the workplace. >> are you kidding? >> this is one of the traps, i think, for paul ryan tonight. the goal here, i think, for the democrats tonight is to put paul ryan on defense. explain yourself, justify yourself, move the spotlight off of barack obama's debate. >> completely distorts what he believes and who he...